Paul Jenkins
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- Joined
- Jul 31, 2006
- RO Number
- 22631
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I posted this over in the sailing forum, but feel it pertains more to the location then the general. Not trying to start a Pi$$ing match, just trying to express the concerns of a new boater. We are a young couple with a child on board; events listed below jeopardize the safety of every one.
I'm a sailor (though this is season 1), I enjoy being under sail, No I don't enjoy doing 5 knots under power, no I don't enjoy doing 1.5 knots in light winds. What I enjoy even less than all that is Power boaters, not you with the big motors in the go fast boats up on plane, but the big boats dragging stern in the water, bow up high trying to go fast.
Bowing into heavy wake is just a necessity, I'm not asking you to stop going fast, just don't go whizzing right by nice and close. And if you have to go close spend the time to do it at a speed you don't make 4 foot wake (yes that's and exaggeration)
Today we we're making our way back from Georgetown to HdG, Md. We had just started into the channel around the horn where APG jets out, when all the sudden there was a good 3 foot wake, luck I caught it in time to bow in but that didn't save my sheets in the V-berth from being drenched (wave of water straight down the hatch).
Incase someone is trying to figure out where and when it was today 8-6-06 when the Macgregor 26 and the 2 other power boats where racing (3 abreast) out the mouth of the channel where it opens up to about 10 depth outside the channel below "Swim Island"
I'm a sailor (though this is season 1), I enjoy being under sail, No I don't enjoy doing 5 knots under power, no I don't enjoy doing 1.5 knots in light winds. What I enjoy even less than all that is Power boaters, not you with the big motors in the go fast boats up on plane, but the big boats dragging stern in the water, bow up high trying to go fast.
Bowing into heavy wake is just a necessity, I'm not asking you to stop going fast, just don't go whizzing right by nice and close. And if you have to go close spend the time to do it at a speed you don't make 4 foot wake (yes that's and exaggeration)
Today we we're making our way back from Georgetown to HdG, Md. We had just started into the channel around the horn where APG jets out, when all the sudden there was a good 3 foot wake, luck I caught it in time to bow in but that didn't save my sheets in the V-berth from being drenched (wave of water straight down the hatch).
Incase someone is trying to figure out where and when it was today 8-6-06 when the Macgregor 26 and the 2 other power boats where racing (3 abreast) out the mouth of the channel where it opens up to about 10 depth outside the channel below "Swim Island"